✨ Save and send this to your support person. Here is how your partner can support you: 1️⃣ Offer water regularly - between every other contraction. You can also have coconut water, laboraide, juice, or smoothies on hand. 2️⃣ Offer snacks. It's important to keep up your energy! Great snacks to have on hand: Greek yogurt, cheese, protein balls, peanut butter, and honey or honey sticks. 3️⃣ Regulating body temperature - whether that means making sure there is a fan pointed at you or keeping cold cloths on hand for behind your neck or on your forehead. 4️⃣ Providing counter pressure! If you have a lot of back labor this is so helpful! (But so is releasing your tension with positions like the side lying release.) 5️⃣ Verbal cues and reminders to slow down your breath, etc. + encouragement